The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-07-23
MARYLAND Affairs.

A violent storm passed over Chesa peak
Bay on Monday afternoon last, and ha'i-
vessels were damaged.
The annual excursion and picnic of lh'
farmers of Frederick county will be heldv
Penmar on the 18th of July.
Samuel Coblens, the well known hors
dealer, in Baltimore, made n deed OF trusV
Monday, for the benefit Of creditors.
On Friday of last week, while on his way to
Virginia, Judge Bryan, of the Court of APP
peals, was swindled out of SIS by sharper
Twenty acres of wheat on the farm of the
late DR.. Maddox, in Washington county,
yielded GAO bushels, an average Of 80 bushels
to the acre.
The Baltimore Bark Extract Mill, was al
most totally destroyed by fire on Thursday
night. The loss is estimated at about $780,
600, fully insured.
Mrs. Susan Marley, widow of the late
David J. Marley, and a lady well known,
died suddenly at her residence in Frederick
on Monday night.
Constable Grace, of Easton, on Tuesday,
arrested Andrew 4. Willis on the charge OF
setting fire to the Talbot County Paper Mills.
He was committed to Jail.
Dorothy William, colored, was committed
for court, in Baltimore, on Thursday, charged
With having caused the death of Charles Ill.
Small, colored, by biting him thus producing
erysipelas.
During game of base ball between colored
clubs, at Dunkirk, Calvert county, one of the
PLAYERS disputed with the umpire, and settled
It BY beating him over the head with bat.
The umpire will die.
The boiler of thresher on the farm of
Edward Stroud, near Elkton, exploded on
Wednesday, killing Stroud and aSplored man
named Crawford. Frank StrouG>-hd Lewis
L. Pritchard were injured.
Mrs. Martha Bond Shafer, widow of the
late George Shafer, and mother Of George d.
Shafer, chief clerk in the land commission
ers office at Annapolis, died on Wednesday
night. She was in her SD year.
At Liberty Mills, near diminishing, at an
early hour on Wednesday morning Frank NJ;
Smith, an employe in the establishment, fell
on pile of logs from a height of about 70 or
% feet, and was instantly killed.
The first passenger train of the West Vir-
ginia Central Railway came through from
Davis, W. Va, to Cumberland Monday eve,
ming, passing over the newly constructed
Piedmont and Cumberland Road.
Absalom Patchett, one of the Oldest resi-.
dents of Easton, died on Thursday, aged
eighty-six. He had been a member of the
Nj. E. Church for three quarters of q century,
and was noted for his religious zeal.
Rev. Henry Mathews, Presbyterian minis
ter, and for some years financial agent of the
MARYLAND Tract Society, died suddenly of
heart disease on Saturday last at Glenwood,
Howard county, in the same house in which
he was born sixty-four years ago.
At Havre de Grace, on Wednesday, some
sharp words passed between Walter w. Pres
ton and Commander Plowman, of the oyster
police force, in regard to violations of the
fishing law. Plowman was knocked down
by Preston, when friends of both interfered.
Albert Brown, colored man employed in
the fertilizer establishment of Delashmutt d
Son, Frederick, was seriously injured on Fri
day afternoon Of last week, by being caught
in the betting of some of the machinery and
violently thrown against joist Both of his
arms and one leg were broken.
Last week Mr.. Beeler and his wife, of
Tilghmanton, Washington county, drove to
Williamsport to sell lot of brooms of their
own manufacture. Mr. Beeler is eighty two
years of age, Mrs. Beeler is eightys six, the
horse they drove is thirty two years old and
the carriage they went in was built in 1916.
Gideon Bantz, aged about rs years, one Of
the most prominent and respected citizens OIL
Frederick, dropped dead while walking in the
yard of his residence, on Thursday evening.
He was largely engaged in the tanning bust
ness for number of years, and frequently
occupied positions of trust and importance.
He was brother-in-law of Hon. Henry G.
Davis, of West Virginia.
In Elkton, on Friday night of last week,
Eugene Salisbury, colored, attempted an
assault on Mrs. Silverberg, of Philadelphia,
who was visiting Marks Lieberman. The
lady had Just retired when the man entered
her room through window and seized heI
by the throat. A desperate struggle ensued,
during which the lady's arms were bruised
and scared. The man escaped but was short
ly after arrested and placed in jail.
The body of Emma Grace, the two year old
daughter Of VIM. Clabaugh, near Emmits
burg, who mysteriously disappeared about
two weeks ago, was found on Saturday in a
terribly mutilated condition, evidently the
work of animals of some kind. 1t is gener-
ally believed that the little one after she be-
came separated from her sister, who was only
two years older, on the morning they started
up the road together to meet their father on
his return home from the store, toddled on
farther and farther into the woods, until over
come by hunger and exhaustion she lay down
and died.
Mrs. Catharine Munder, one of the oldest
Germans in Baltimore, died on Saturday, in
her 95th year. She leaves three children,
twelve grand children and two great-grand
children. She came to Baltimore when 20
years old, accompanied by an elder sister, and
her intention was to return to her native land.
In Baltimore, however, she met Mr.. Charles
f. Munder, whom she had known in Germa.
ny, and they decided to marry. She was
identified with the Lutheran Church, and was
noted for her kindly disposition and Christian
character.
Miss Ida ]. Andrews, aged 10 years, daugh
ter of Henson Z. Andrews, Baltimore county,
was killed about p. NJ. on Monday, by the
fall of black walnut tree while she was
standing in tent at the corner of Thompson
avenue and Spring street, on the Emory
Grove camp ground. Mrs. Jennie Earle, a
sister of Miss Andrews, was seriously injured
at the same time, and Mrs. Andrews and Miss
Maggie Andrews had narrow escape. The
death of Miss Andrews created a sensation al
the grove, and her mother and sisters were
nearly frantic with grief
Among the deaths in Baltimore for the
week ended on Saturday evening, July Is,
were los cnliufen luuuer o years vi aye. vi
these, los were under l year, % between ]
and years, and - between and 8 years.
There were 81 deaths from cholera infantum,
II from commissions, and from marasmus.
The total deaths were 253 against PIP for the
same week of 1886. The deaths assigned to
old age numbered 16, an unusually large mum.
Der, and there were u deaths between 20 and
80 years, Is between so and 80 years, and l
between 80 and 100 years, making 26 deaths
of persons over 20 years of age.
Tobias Rudolph died suddenly, in Elkton,
on Monday last, aged 62years. The deceased
was the fourth Tobias Rudulph, and has a
son Of the same name. The first Tobias was
engaged in business near Elk Landing in 1745.
He afterwards kept store in Elkton, and built
the historic old building two doors east of the
courthouse in 176S The deceased was a
granddaughter of John and Michael Rudolph.
The former as major and the latter as captain
distinguished themselves under Light Horse"
Harry Lee in Southern campaigns during the
revolutionary war. Cecil county tradition
has it that Michael Rudolph, who disappeared
from the county on board vessel which was
not heard of afterwards, went to France and
I-.. IL oo1ab-atad Maroha1 Nav Mrs